Chief Technology Officer leading technology and product for the premier residential BPL real estate lending platform. Roc Capital has originated over $12 billion in loans, helping to revitalize and expand America's affordable workforce housing. Grew the team from in house hedge fund tools group to create a comprehensive mobile/web platform for loan origination, marketing, sales, and data science and also launch Insurance, Title, and iBuyer ventures. Together we evolved from a monolithic back end oriented system to a comprehensive services suite with full, client branded app and SaaS tailored products, onsite mobile insights, automated sales/marketing, and ML/AI services.

Led engineering team alongside CTO to create a customizable Personal Pension guaranteed income retirement solution. Backed by an automated marketplace for quoting, enterprise integration API with insurers, and a digital, recurring workflow we delivered a radically better buyer experience. Acquired by Stone Ridge.

Launched YieldStreet as interim CTO, creating the leading specialty finance marketplace (nearly $4 billion in deals funded). Worked with founders to define initial product, technical roadmap, and deliver MVP in 2 months. Expanded product, built key integrations, and led ongoing development handoff to local tech leadership. FinTech advisor providing architectural and strategic input for SaaS startups and real estate investment products. Created accredited investor SaaS services for more flexible investment offerings and simplified management of investor accreditation, reporting, and registrations.

Chief Technology Officer for the leading platform for evidence based entrepreneurship. LaunchPad Central is a SaaS for the Lean Startup process used by the NSF, NIH, Stanford, Berkeley, and over 5,000 teams in academia, enterprise, and accelerators. Rearchitected legacy full page PHP to AngularJS front end with websockets, polyglot JSON-REST services, and dynamic AWS service provisioning. Responsible for engineering, operations, product definition, and contributing to overall management. Mentor to Stamford and Berkeley entrepreneurship classes.

First engineering hire, coded most of initial loans and marketing systems, and led hiring to build out the technology organization that powered the fastest growing social finance platform. Over $100 million in loans processed in under a year from initial development start and built the foundation for $70 billion and counting in total lending. Delivered a flexible Java/Scala/Backbone single-page rich internet application with strong social and marketing integration and helped to create the early networking and investment products.

Chief Technology Officer responsible for technology direction, development, and technical operations of the first SEC/FINRA registered alternative trading system (ATS) for private company stocks. Refocused long delayed product, instituted Agile development processes, and helped lead first public product launch.

Co-founder and principal for a consulting and product development startup. We specialized in creating new products, getting startup companies off the ground, financial markets, and teaching teams about leading edge technologies. Led teams to create communication products for Thomson-Reuters, AWS migration and architecture for BountyJobs, telephony products based on Twilio APIs, geo-aware lead generation/seo, financial focused expert network for Bear Stearns, and create proposal and prototypes for solar systems startup.Gordian Labs also helped to launch Twilio, LearnVest, and created Runometer (one of the first Nike+ mapping sites and a Facebook Fund finalist).

Head of architecture team and lead technologist in charge of building a SaaS weath management solution powering 100K+ customers and terabytes of data at Wells Fargo, First Republic, Harris Bank, and others. Led definition of data model, core architecture, and many new product lines. Responsible for CTO duties including technical liason with customers, presentations to board of directors, and technical aspects of business strategy. Previous duties included managing the core engineering team, training lead for offshoring program, and technical lead for our first client delivery. Acquired by ADP.

Performed product development, market analysis, and strategic development for Chicago Mercantile Exchange, reporting to the CIO. Also worked with several startup companies and projects in initial product development, business analysis, and various aspects of launch. Helped lead development of new product areas and evaluation of technologies as well as creation of prototype software solutions for these spaces.

Reported to CIO with responsibility for technology architecture, strategy, vendor relationships, and advising on VC investments. Created 10K+ seat business chat product and helped lead $75MM spinout (later acquired by Microsoft). Previously first dedicated web/internet developer, team lead for new technologies, and member of global architecture committee. Built research, trading, and blogging websites for internal and client use.Also managed a portfolio of technology investments for the proprietary trading desk and researched technologies for both investment and technical use. Worked with statistical arbitrage group on both technology and strategies. Product Manager for trade idea and blogging system built out from investment work.Note: Company was formerly O'Connor and Associates, Swiss Bank Corproration, and SBC Warburg Dillon Read through a series of mergers.